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You want creativity? How

Verified Atheist — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:05:10 +0000

In reply to On a deeper level, it’s about

You want creativity? How about the German market's reaction to make incandescent lightbulbs illegal to sell? The clever SOBs are now selling incandescent heatbulbs, which just happen to have the byproduct of also emitting light.

I'm of mixed feelings on the matter. I use CFL and LED bulbs, and would like everyone to voluntarily switch to them, but I don't want the government getting involved in the matter. So, basically, I'm agreeing with the thrust of what you're saying.

On a deeper level, it’s about

lighthouse — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:53:41 +0000

In reply to ‘They came for our toilets. Now, they want our light bulbs’

On a deeper level, it’s about celebrating Creativity – not Destruction.

Celebrating creativity is about recognizing the advantages that
different products have, including regular simple incandescent light bulbs.
That is why they exist for people to choose.

President Obama, State of the Union Address 25 January 2011:
What we can do – what America does better than anyone – is spark the
creativity and imagination of our people.
We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices,
the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers…

Yes Mr President, Creative America, the nation of Edison:
Would you not have allowed him to create his popular light bulb?

And so it came to pass, in the autumn of 1879, after tireless effort
working with different materials, Thomas Edison finally arrived at the
ingenious invention we still see today, the Edison light bulb, in its
basic form the world’s single most popular electrical appliance and
the oldest electrical invention in widespread common use:
A beautifully simple, safe, cheap, bright light delivering construction.

Maybe the time will come when, like its cousin the gleaming radio
tube, it gradually fades away, the passing of old technology.

But let it be a democratic passing by the will of the people, not a
passing by committee dictats and decrees.

How many American, European or other officials should it take to
change a light bulb?
None.
How many citizens should be allowed to choose?
Everyone.
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lighthouse — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:33:16 +0000

In reply to ‘They came for our toilets. Now, they want our light bulbs’

RE artappraiser comment

"I guess I am a radical rightie on the light bulb issue, until someone invents a better alternative."

This "let's wait for better (LED etc) bulbs" that many say, makes no sense either if you think about it:

If a new product is preferred to the old one, why ban the old one?
(No point, little savings)
If an old product is preferred to the new one, why ban the old one?
(No point, the old one is better)

Incandescent bulbs are related to radio tubes, LEDs are related to transistors

No-one was calling for “a ban on energy guzzling radio tubes” when they were abundant,and newer transistors, were arriving on the market.The tubes got used less anyway – but are still appreciated for specialuses, without breaking down any power plant (any guitarists out there?).

It is important that you be

jollyroger — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:20:19 +0000

In reply to You don't need light bulbs.

It is important that you be properly lighted for your christmas mailing, featuring you

seated on your 5 gallon toilet

holding your ak 47

(and in your case, demonstrating that the porcelain remains unfractured by inopportune freezing)

You don't need light bulbs.

Donal — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:04:17 +0000

In reply to ‘They came for our toilets. Now, they want our light bulbs’

You don't need light bulbs. If God wanted you awake, he wouldn't make it dark.

Thanks for the laugh!But do

EmmaZahn — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:03:44 +0000

In reply to As long as they don't take

Thanks for the laugh!

But do not expect a balanced federal budget even if Clinton returns --- he probably feels like he was duped into doing it so is not likely to do it again.

As long as they don't take

NCD — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:00:14 +0000

In reply to ‘They came for our toilets. Now, they want our light bulbs’

As long as they don't take our guns, our AK-47's with banana clips, our 50 caliber sniper rifles, or stop our 2nd Amendment protected totally unregulated Gun Shows we can always deal guns for light bulbs, the Mexicans send the bulbs/toilets north, the guns go south.

Americans will never be denied anything but possibly abortions (all male GOP Congressman have already said they would never get one), peace, health care, a job, a retirement or a balanced federal budget (unless Clinton returns). Guns were the First Freedom, light bulbs and commodes are in there too, somewhere, kudos to Georgia for shedding light on an issue that needs to be flushed into the open.

I know, why should a stripper

jollyroger — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:43:28 +0000

In reply to Hmmph.

I know, why should a stripper know anything about wiring...Well, come to think of it, before you wrap the wires together, what do you do to the insulation? That's right!

Hmmph.

LisB — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:11:00 +0000

In reply to NOW ya ask, oy!

Hmmph.

NOW ya ask, oy!

jollyroger — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:04:57 +0000

In reply to Yeah the living room light

NOW ya ask, oy!